Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers, and Their Works: A HandbookJ.R. Osgood, 1881 - 681 Seiten |
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Seite 360 - Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
Seite 153 - The word angel, here, referred to the Angelo of the sculptor's name. He made the statue reply thus : " Sleep is dear to me, and still more that I am stone, so long as dishonor and shame last among us ; the happiest fate is to see, to hear nothing ; for this reason waken me not — • I pray you speak gently.
Seite 216 - I dined with the artist, on the glorious 5th of December, 1782, after listening with him to the speech of the King, formally recognizing the United States of America as in the rank of nations. Previous to...
Seite 525 - John playing with a Lamb. Baptism of Christ. Samson killing the Lion. David killing the Lion and the Bear. S. Sebastian. Jupiter and Antiope. Jupiter and Juno. Bacchus, drunk, supported by a Faun and a Satyr. Bacchus supported by Satyrs and Bacchante. Meleager presenting the Head of the Boar to Atalanta.
Seite 428 - Strozzi chapel of the same church; frescoes in the Servi (now destroyed) ; the façade of S. Apellinare: the " Coronation of the Virgin," now in the National Gall.; and then, as has always been said, the great frescoes of the " Triumph of Death " and the " Last Judgment,
Seite 586 - Knee, and a Female Saint holding a Palm. The Holy Family, with the Child asleep in the Arms of the Virgin. The Holy Family in a Landscape, with several Angels. Christ crowned with Thorns; very fine. The Elevation of the Cross. The Crucifixion ; a grand composition, with two men on horseback, and a figure presenting tinsponge to Christ ; on the other side, the Virgin Mary and S.
Seite 452 - When completed they were exhibited, and even by the side of the transcendent beauty of Raphael's work, the "Lazarus" was much admired. It is certainly in the very spirit of Michael Angelo. It was one of the important works of the 16th century. It was sent to Narbonne by the Cardinal, and is now in the National Gall. After the death of Raphael. Sebastian was called the first painter in Rome. His works were numerous ; some fine ones are in Madrid and St. Petersburg; many are in Venice, and they are...
Seite 109 - Were I to love money," he said, " I should lose all power of thought; desire of gain deadens the genius of man. I might roll in wealth and ride in a golden chariot, were I to listen to the voice of parsimony. My business is not to gather gold, but to make glorious shapes, expressing godlike sentiments.
Seite 213 - Ho painted landscapes in England, Italy, and Sicily, but he loved best to represent the beauties of the New World. It has been well said that his brush performed the same service to our scenery, as Bryant's pen. He wrote from Italy, '•Neither the Alps, nor the Apennines, nor even Etna itself have dimmed in my eyes the beauty of our own Catskills.
Seite 45 - Vamlyck was often with her in Genoa, where her house was a favorite resort of all artists, and he was heard to say that he had been more enlightened in painting by a blind woman than by his own master. When we consider that this master was Rubens, and Vandyck his favorite pupil, this is great praise. She painted two...